December 27 in Pop Culture History

• 1927 – Kern and Hammerstein’s musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
• 1945 – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded with an agreement by 29 nations.
• 1947 – The Howdy Doody TV show premiered on NBC. It was the first popular children’s television show.
• If you were born on December 27th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… April 4th (same year)

Make Cut Out Snowflakes Day
National Fruitcake Day
Visit The Zoo Day

“I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.”
– Louis Pasteur

“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight; always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
J.M. Barrie

“I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.”
– Louis Pasteur

“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.”
– Marlene Dietrich

“What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they’re going home to and what they’re dealing with, and knowing that for the time being, we’re their escape.”
– Hayley Williams

“It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don’t want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.”
– John Amos

“Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.”
– Marlene Dietrich

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.”
– Hayley Williams

“At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths – your abilities and your failings.”
-Gérard Depardieu

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
– Johannes Kepler

1571 – Johannes Kepler, German mathematician, and astronomer (died in 1630)
1822 – Louis Pasteur, French chemist, and microbiologist, invented Pasteurization (died in 1895)
1901 – Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress (died in 1992)
1926 – Lee Salk, American child psychologist (died in 1992)
1939 – John Amos, American actor
1943 – Cokie Roberts, American journalist
1944 – Mick Jones, English guitarist, and songwriter
1948 – Gérard Depardieu, French-Russian actor
1960 – Maryam d’Abo, English actress
1969 – Chyna, American professional wrestler, and actress (died in 2016)
1971 – Savannah Guthrie, American television journalist
1975 – Heather O’Rourke, American actress (died in 1988)
1987 – Lily Cole, English model
1988 – Hayley Williams, American singer-songwriter
1993 – Olivia Cooke, English actress

1831 – Charles Darwin set sail in the HMS Beagle, beginning his journey discovering evolution.

1895 – “Stag” Lee Sheldon killed his friend Billy Lyons over a drunken political argument. Various versions of the encounter have been sung about “Stagger Lee.”

1904 – Duke of York’s Theatre – Peter Pan the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up (Play), by J.M. Barrie, opened on December 27, 1904

1927 – Show Boat, considered to be the first American musical play, opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

1932 – Built during the Great Depression, Radio City Music Hall, a modern Art Deco theater in New York City, opened.

1952 – #1 Hit December 27, 1952 – January 9, 1953: Jimmy Boyd – I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

1969 – #1 Hit December 27, 1969 – January 2, 1970: Diana Ross & the Supremes – Someday We’ll Be Together

1975 – #1 Hit December 27, 1975 – January 2, 1976: The Staple Singers – Let’s Do It Again

1979 – Knots Landing premiered on CBS

1983 – Pope John Paul II visited Mehmet Ali Agca in prison and personally forgave him for shooting him in 1981, in St. Peter’s Square.

1986 – Brighton Beach Memories debuted in theaters.

1991 – Fried Green Tomatoes and The Prince of Tides were released in theaters.

2002 – Chicago debuted in theaters.

2013 – August: Osage County was released in theaters.

Biggest film of 2012: The Avengers (Action) earned ~ $623,000,000 (in the USA)

“Oh, no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.” – Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) in King Kong, 1933

Boy George – Real Name: George O’Dowd

Watching the Big Bang would have been like seeing a clown car for the first time. “There’s NO WAY anything else is coming out of there!” #nerdhumor

The official nut of Alabama is the pecan.

The Hatfield-McCoy Feud was settled by the doctrine that possession is nine-tenths of the law, giving possession of the pig that the McCoys claimed was their property.

Notice the big letter on the face of the dollar bill? Each letter represents which Federal Reserve Bank printed it! “K” is for Dallas

Charles Darwin collected a Galápagos tortoise during his 1835 visit to the Galápagos Islands as part of his round-the-world survey expedition. It lived 175 years and died of heart failure at the Australia Zoo in 2006.

A group of Jellyfish is called a Smack or Brood.

The biggest film of 2011: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (Action/Adventure) earned ~ $381,000,000

“Wake up late for school man, ya don’t wanna go…” #songlyrics

The Noid, Domino’s 80’s Pizza mascot, was retired after a paranoid schizophrenic named Kenneth Lamar Noid entered a Domino’s Pizza in Atlanta and held two employees hostage at gunpoint. He believed the commercials were making fun of him.

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